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6 Types of Art Therapy Exercises for the Classroom (and Some Examples)
In recent years, the need to address students' social and emotional needs have grown. Now is the perfect time to focus on beneficial and creative activities for your students. Art is excellent for mental health, and art therapy is a perfect choice to combat today’s...
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Implement SEL Successfully with the ARTs
Hey everyone, I’m Elizabeth and I love helping other caring, creative teachers bring the Arts into their classroom! I especially love doing this through SEAL: Social-Emotional Artistic Learning. If this topic interests you, you are in the right place. Talking about...
3 Common Mistakes Teachers Make with SEL
Are you implementing SEL into your classroom? If you are, awesome! If you’re not - you really need to get started! It’s just SO important! Either way, I’m excited to share 3 common mistakes I see teachers making when implementing social-emotional learning in their...
The Role Teachers Play in SEL
Your reach as an educator is vast! In other words, you have so much potential and so many opportunities to make a difference in your students’ lives.I don’t know about you, but I got into teaching to do just that. I wanted to make a difference in my students' lives...
The Best Kept Secret About SEAL
I want to share the best kept secret about SEAL that only a few educators know about and even fewer truly understand.First, what is SEAL? SEAL stands for Social-Emotional Artistic Learning. It takes the best of what the arts have to offer and couples it with the...
Why I Teach SEL through SEAL
Have you heard of SEAL? It stands for Social-Emotional Artistic Learning! It takes the best of what arts integration is and integrates it with the ever growing need for social-emotional learning. I teach SEAL and today I want to tell you more about WHY I teach SEL...
Why Should YOU Teach SEL?
Social-emotional learning is the first step in a successful classroom community. If a student is secure in their social-emotional learning, that's when the real learning takes place. How can you accomplish all of this and so much more? With SEAL: Social-Emotional...
How to Deal With Stress as a Teacher
Stressed to the MAX? Is this school year getting the best of you? If you're a stressed teacher, then chances are you've got some stressed kids. That's not the goal. The goal is to be a happy teacher and have happy students. My name is Elizabeth and I love helping...
How to Make and Use an Emotional Wheel
 Let's Make an Emotion Wheel! The Emotion Wheel can be a very powerful tool for students to identify and discuss their emotions. My name is Elizabeth Peterson, and I'm the creator of SEAL: Social-Emotional Artistic Learning where we take the best of what arts...
How to Make 3 Origami Hearts
Let's Make Origami Hearts! Hearts can mean so many different things; love, friendship, kindness. When you can make your own origami heart for someone, it's even more special. That's why I'm so happy to be bringing my friend Barbara Pearl back to show us three...
The Power of the Pause
Check out this 'Powerful' tool! Are you a remote teacher, or having to assign some sort of virtual work this school year? Then I have just the thing! It's called The Power of the Pause. This amazing self-care, management, and self-awareness tool will serve you in...